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About Us
The Rockford College Music Academy is a not-for-profit community
school of music dedicated to providing high quality, affordable
instruction, and performance opportunities to academy students,
regardless of age or ability.
It is the mission of the Rockford College Music Academy
to inspire in students a life-long love of music and the arts.
Rockford College Music Academy is a member of the National Guild
of Community Schools of the Arts. As a Guild school, we believe
the arts are fundamental. We believe excellent instruction and expert
individual education in the arts continues to be an important and
vital factor in the welfare of all people. We believe the arts give
meaning and wholeness to all human existence, extending from the
life of the individual to the community and ultimately to our entire
civilization. Thus, it must follow the pursuit of the arts is the
rightful heritage of every individual and not the privilege of the
gifted few.
Therefore, in this as in every other sphere of human activity,
the highest quality of artistic endeavor must be made accessible
to all interested persons.
Like Jane Addams, founder of the Hull House Community School of
Music, we seek
“to give thorough musical instruction to those children
showing the greatest aptitude and to foster in a much larger group
the cultural aspects of a musical education.”
Jane Addams
Rockford College, Class of 1882
Nobel Peace Prize, 1931

Music Academy students performing at the Jane Addams
Memorial Park in Chicago in 1996.
Links
National
Guild of Community Schools of the Arts - an organization
with 305 member schools, including the Music Academy.
The
Mendelssohn Club - the oldest
community music organization in continuing existence in the US,
is located in Rockford, Illinois.
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